postadolescent
English edit
Etymology edit
post- + adolescent.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective edit
postadolescent (not comparable)
- Occurring after a period of adolescence.
- 2007 June 17, Michael Goldfarb, “Where the Arts Were Too Liberal”, in New York Times[1]:
- The let’s-try-anything, free-thinking society of 1968 evolved into a catastrophic blend of legitimate paranoia (Nixon did keep enemies lists, and the F.B.I. did infiltrate campuses) and postadolescent melodrama.
Noun edit
postadolescent (plural postadolescents)
- One who has grown out of adolescence.